A medical transport jet carrying a child patient, her mother and four others has crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood about 30 seconds after taking off, erupting in a fireball and engulfing several homes in flames.

A small medical transport plane, carrying a child, her mother and four other people, went down in Philadelphia on Friday, in a fiery crash near a busy mall. The Learjet 55 crashed near the Roosevelt Mall in northeast Philadelphia around 6:30 p.

The Learjet, carrying a pediatric patient and five others, crashed in Northeast Philadelphia. It was flying to Mexico with a stop planned in Missouri.